So how fares the meteorite market in these recessionary times? The supply is very low and the demand has really been going up in the last few years, says Farmer. Prices have quadrupled on certain items just in the last year. He is currently working on a $1.5 million sale of a 120-pound meteorite. He once negotiated in a similar price range with the Russians for a whopper weighing 3.5 tons. Having been burned investing in less rock-solid opportunities, Farmer says he's learned to keep his money in his inventory.
this idea was quickly patented and the copyrighted name victrola was given to this new invention the term victrola thus applies only to internal horn phonographs made by the victor talking machine company and is not a generic term for all old phonographs the first internal horn phonograph initially designated as the victor victrola was marketed in 1906
Thomas Edison invented his tin-foil phonograph, Edison's phonograph was followed by Alexander Graham Bell's graphophone. In 1887 Emile Berliner invented the gramophone and records.he Dictaphone was still in use in the early 1950's.    The first flat, circular record was invented in 1887 by Emile Berliner (1851-1929), a German-born American inventor, who also devised the gramophone to play his disks.